Nobody wants to admit it, but they send the worst teachers to The Bronx. — Ruben Diaz Sr Copy Share Image
I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York. — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution. — Penny Marshall Copy Share Image
I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years. — Charles Best Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!' — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx. — Cy Coleman Copy Share Image
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give… — Cara Buono Copy Share Image
“I forgot about his boys surrounding me. I was too focused on not getting stabbed with the broken bottle.” — Russell Vann Copy Share Image
I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what's up. I know what time it is. I used to hang… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best… — Cara Buono Copy Share Image
The South Bronx has long lacked high-quality park space for recreation and community gathering. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland… — Fat Joe Copy Share Image
I just think people find me relatable, because I look like a regular girl from the Bronx. — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
I remember struggling to fit in with kids in my neighborhood in the Bronx because my mom sacrificed to put me into… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx… — A Boogie wit da Hoodie Copy Share Image
I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language,… — Sid Bernstein Copy Share Image
Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age. — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
The Bronx definitely made me tough. And it definitely allowed me to read people. — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
The South Bronx has long been ground zero for racially concentrated poverty. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I never thought life would take me on a journey from the Bronx to Washington, D.C. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.' — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable — Majora Carter Copy Share Image